The Book and the New Nation Alejandro A. The Erosion of the Bipolar Power Structure in the 1960s:. Cesar Majul's book Muslims in the Philippines, May 25, 1973 at the Asia Center, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City. The establishment of the EEC was almost simultaneous with the emergence of the Sino-Soviet conflict in 1960.
THE EROSION OF THE BI-POLAR POWER STRUCTURE IN THE 1960s 19 Suez and as the United States planned to withdraw its ground forces from Asia. The key to the Soviet Union's Asian strategy appears to be the growing fear of mainland China due to the PRC's progress in nuclear weapons. In short, Japan today is not yet an "equal" partner of the USA.
They contributed to the gradual removal of the immediate post-war bipolar world order and the emergence in the early seventies of a new world order. Japan's economic rehabilitation and expansion of trade with Asia and the rest of the world (especially the United States) in the fifties brought rapid economic growth (an "economic miracle") in Japan and Japanese economic aid to Asia in the sixties. East Asia—the United States, the Soviet Union, and China—would work among themselves under the principles of coexistence.
GRADUATE THESES IN PHILIPPINE UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES
It can be said that the working day in the municipality is marked by the arrival and departure of the Dangwa bus. ART IN IFUGAO SOCIETY 49 The inaccessibility and remoteness of the area are exacerbated by weather conditions. It is performed during marriage preparations for the benefit of the couple and their respective families.
A discussion of the different forms of art: attitudes towards art and artists and lfugao "aesthetics". Carving, textile weaving, basketry, carpentry and blacksmithing are the most widespread arts. Among the later crafts, the making of spears is popular, and today it is aimed at the tourist trade.
This is the most dominant trade of the B.anaue Ifugaos, while carpentry, blacksmithing and basketry are secondary trades. By far the most important carving is the bulol, the representation of the Ifugao deity par excellence. The artist and the art object are always placed at the service of family well-being.
All other art forms therefore become the manifestation of the boon bestowed by the bulol. It is a style that demands to be interpreted in terms of the whole of social contexts. The intensive participation of a large number of Ifugaos in tourism is again explained for the economic benefit of the family.
The Ifugaos are credited with the greatest development of irrigated rice terraces in this part of the world.16. Unfortunately, many traders in the tourist trade do not know the artistic principles governing the marketability of handicraft products. There is also an expectation that the products of the countries visited are unique to that region.
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ANG PAG-AARAL NG PILIPINAS SA U.S.S.R.83 ay magiging palakaibigan sa sambayanang Pilipino, na naghahangad na malaman ang kanilang pamumuhay noon at kasalukuyan, upang maipalaganap sa tiyan ng masa ng mga mambabasang Sobyet ang tunay na kaalaman sa malayong bansang ito.
MODERNIZATION IN ASIA
As he enters the stage, he stops and very slowly turns to face the audience, uttering his Jida.i or preliminary couplet, a Buddhist aphorism appropriate to the theme of the play. Wretched as I am In such a wretched time; I trembled at the sound of the angel. And the woman, shuddering (for she hates a ghost to be named) replies: "Hazukashi ya!" I am the soul of that unfortunate woman, the one with the color of kaligatan kayungandang, the one whose sweet voice once prompted the cruel Dofia Consolacion to speak her native Tagalog again.
She recounts each scene of torture with such vivid mime that, although it exists only in her brain, it is as real to the audience as if the figure of an unconscious Basilio were lying on the stage, or as if her executioners, Padre Salvi curate , sacristan, guardias civiles and loose women in in the city they actually walked and jeered in front of her. The Zoo Story, Noh, transcends necessity by expanding the scope of the dramatic action so that the universes of both the living and the dead are encompassed, and past and present are finally inexorably united. There is a spare form of drama itself, set against the equally austere Noh stage.
There is the austere symbolization of gesture, the stark linear simplicity of costumes, masks and stage props. There is the persistent permeation of the choral singing and the instrumental music that underlines the simple, direct poetic lines. In the art of .Y oh also, the different types of miming are artificial things.
The mind must be made the strings that hold together all the forces of art. 34; 3 It is this primacy of the mind in Eastern theater that Antonin Artaud appeals to; he noted that "Drama is the most perfect expression of the mind." (and that) "the finest manifestation of pure theatre" is to be found in Eastern theatre, where what is troubling to Europeans like himself (and to Western-oriented drama students like us), in contrast to Western theatre, Eastern theater exudes a 'admirable intellectuality that you feel everywhere crackling in the narrow and subtle web of gestures, in the infinitely varied modulation of the voice, etc. There is the Noh stage, a majestic structure that bears its own roof like a crown under the ceiling of the theater housing the auditorium and the various tea and souvenir shops.
At the far end of the hashigalcari is a colorfully stripped brocade curtain, topped with satin cords and tassels and held up by means of two bamboo poles. The stage itself, under the constant lights of neon and birdwatching lamps, is unadorned except for the large mural of the traditional Yogo pine tree that takes up the entire back wall, its gnarled branches supporting voluminous clouds of pine needles.
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This should be emphasized in view of the fact that, until the time of Tas. In the latter case, the source of the information should have been cited in good faith. Grace, The Position of the Polynesians1: A Language within the Ustronesian (Malaya-Polynesian) Language Family.
He also proposed an active partnership with educated Filipinos in the government of the islands to eliminate the atrophy in their capacity for self-government. In the Philippine Islands, ninety percent of the inhabitants are still in a hopeless state of ignorance, and are utterly incompetent in an intelligent way. Blount, a former judge at the Court of First Instance in the Philippines, substantiated Bryan's statement urging the granting of independence to the Filipinos.
When the Treaty of Paris eventually provided for the full sale of the Philippines to the United States, there was a clash between Aguinaldo's forces and the Americans. THE BELGIAN VIEW OF THE PHILIPPINES 127 material~ from Archbishop de Nozaleda to the Apostolic Delegate in the United States. In the end, even he came to terms with the dominant role of United States citizens in the political and ecclesiastical life of the islands.14.
In the second part of the article, we will outline some parallels between shamanism in the Philippines and in Southeast Asia. The same goes for the Yakuts of North Asia and the Niassans of Sumatra. The features of this healing ceremony are still very similar to those of the ride.
The first part is called Pa-A pong (i.e., the ceremony . ·· to let the spirits come in.") The family of the sick person gathers around him in the sala. Then for an hour, he :md his attendants are silent in the presence of spirits. In general it can be said that the special relationship of the shaman with the tutelary spirit was through possession.
The curing ceremony in sitio Tubig-ginoo is performed beside a huge fire built in the courtyard by order of the chief shaman or tambalan.
PART II
It is said that the healer sees the disease in these crystals, that is, the cenoi in them show him the cause of the disease and its treatment. It is believed that the diamond is more powerful against the forces of the barangans and others. At the same time giants will come and fight with him for possession of the mutya.
This religious movement followed the ancient patterns of sacrifice that ended in spasms. PHILIPPINE SHAMANISM AND SOUTHEAST ASIAN PARALLELS of animals as well as spirits and gods. The name of the shaman itself coincides a number of times in the two regions: the Philippines and Southeast Asia.
The shaman is called Belian bomor in Kelantan; while the Sea Dyak call the seance of the manang belian. And the impotent sexless priest-shaman of the same Sea Dyak is called 1nO/JWng bali. SANIEL is Professor of East Asian Studies and Secretary of the Asian Center, University of the Philippines.
CESAR ADIB MAJUL is Professor of Philosophy, College of Arts and Sciences, University of the Philippines. The Political and Constitutio1w.l /dews of the Philippine Revolution, llfabini and the Philippiue Revolution, ArJOlinario Mabini:. AURORA ROXAS-LIM is Assistant Professor of Oriental Arts, Asian Center, University of the Philippines.
SALAZAR is Associate Professor of Anthropology and European History, College of Arts and Sciences, University of the Philippines. AMELIA LAPE:NA-BONIF ACIO is Assistant Professor of Imaginative Writing, DECL, College of Arts and Sciences, University of the Philippines.
